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Post by saltyfish on Jun 28, 2020 11:09:48 GMT
What particle the cannon will shoot out in real life and why choosing it？How would it compares to a laser with same power output？
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Post by cipherpunks on Jun 28, 2020 13:53:06 GMT
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Post by AtomHeartDragon on Jun 28, 2020 15:56:29 GMT
The main problem with ion cannons is that they bloom something fierce.
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Post by EshaNas on Jul 4, 2020 2:52:47 GMT
I noticed this, from Nov '19: toughsf.blogspot.com/2019/11/hypervelocity-macron-accelerators.html The main problem with ion cannons is that they bloom something fierce. True, but what are the alternatives? Laser Cannons are either going to huge mirrors with massive heat waste ontop of a gigantic power bill, relativistic weaponry may not fit on a ship worth being a ship/wear down too much in the case of railguns, missiles may be too slow, easy to shoot down, and massive to lug around, regular bullets may work early on in near earth space with 'slow' ships but not much else elsewhere with 'fast' ships over a hundred thousand KM, and what am I missing? Drones just take the problems onto themselves like a yoke. MASERs seem like a dead end. One needs a weapon for ships that is not massive, not too 'hot', not too powerhungry by itself, and reaches the enemy quickly and with destructive force. Admittedly, even particle accelerators may not impart much force on a target after their flight...what does that leave? Hypersonic kinetics?
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Post by AtomHeartDragon on Jul 4, 2020 9:08:49 GMT
Neutral particle beams are an obvious all-around improvement over ion beams. Colloid guns/macron accelerators seem like a useful intermediate between kinetic guns and particle beams. The rest really depends on the context and tech level.
For actual ship to ship battles you're also pretty much required to be in orbit around a point of interest, which constrains velocity range somewhat. And I don't think you are going to get ship battles between fast fleets in transit, what you will get are triple 'm's - millisecond missile massacres.
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Post by bigbombr on Jul 4, 2020 20:07:43 GMT
UREB's (ultra-relativistic electron beams) can also be an excellent space-to-space beam weapon. Electron beams tend to suffer a lot from electrostatic blooming, but this can be mitigated by yeeting them at extremely relativistic (like 0.999999...c) velocities, slowing down their blooming through relativistic effects. This can in theory be done with any type of particle beam, but is the easiest to do with electrons as they have the highest possible charge to mass ratio.
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Post by nova_matrix on Feb 21, 2021 23:06:42 GMT
the piece on triphaseal ziphenoids
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